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feO by the Century "1 1 By Henry Kotchell Welister, Au-
Wm Copyrighted 1903-10 1 Wjt g Jj fc J m "flri thor (With Samuel Merwin) of
iBate of siege.
5Kwery of the trades fiir
IBS element of the drama
IBVioy iwelf out that winter
iiilch had been so
JWfoV it . i was just three
?Mdns"iowly northward be
IjBKJJtirherly breeze, the ice
MS he had caught his first
W miknown land where Cap
iS Set his tragic fate so
flSe. Three days since he
Ffrom aloft, the murder of
ft I hive saved, the man to
fJkSd him. be might have
erflMon from a stain upon
KeSs 5o" ineradicable.
SaJo" " had thought his
ifcfv swept clean of human
gman affection. Three days
S" known that Jeanne Held-
L three days there had been
Sr which had not produced
25 situation of one sort or
5 since the disappearance
5the hours that Cayley and
Lient together had been a
Suit and highly diverse
DPiness and love and dread
B alternated with each
delation after another had
face o the world for them.
SSovcry of Cnyley's was the
Id not instantly take in the
of t, indeed, it was not un
m talked out half tnc night
fflprclicnded fully what their
? -And oven tncn. there were
bestions. to which the on y
r tould make were strangely
ntal fact was clear. They
Snot only with cold and
"crlvatlon and despair, not
I savage tenacity of a black
but with human hatred
In'd cruelty as well. Whether
ns one or a dozen, they did
festerday the solitude of this
'ibeen one of Jts terrors, but
olltwle had given place to a
iterror. , ,
ilidentlty of the monster who
.'proof of his existence in
"which Philip had discovered
Ithey of course had no cer
l. nevertheless, they cn
15. little doubt that he was
Sslf The footprints were im
ey said, and tlicir distance
;o the stride of a giant.
Roscoe who had been crouch
thlnd the boulder, then it
them unlikely that he was
unlikely that he had not at
ithrec of his crew with him.
ivhcn it first occurred to
it little added terror with it.
of, the monstrous murderous
Vwes the chief, dwarfed his
flo pygmies. Yet when they
6 over their situation, rca
lir.cortalnty as to the num
jencniy proved a vital ele
flt nut an unequivocal veto
l linst plan, which was lo
I Once and take the aggressive
r-i enemy, before he should
fimovc against them,
i) co question, of course, of
anything like a truce. What they had
seen put down in black and whito in
Captain Fielding's journal was enough to
render nn idea liko that perfectly fatu
ous. They must llvo in mortal peril so
long as a single member of the Walrus
crew remained alive to sharo their frozen
solitude.
But this doubt about the number of
their enemy made Cnyley's plan for an
aggressive campaign Impracticable. They
had only one weapon between them,
namely. Cayley 's revolver; it was clear
that they could not separate without
leaving one of them defenseless. Even
though the sky-man, with the advantage
of his wings, might be ablo to discover
the whereabouts of the enemy who had
lurked behind the boulder upon the bench
that day, he would not daro go in pursuit
of him for fear of what I1I3 possible con
federates might do to Jeanne in his ab
sence. Reluctantly ho camo to tho conclusion
that tho only thing for them to do was
to remain strictly upon the defensive.
Jeanne agreed in the conclusion, but sho
accepted it much loss reluctantly. In
spite of all they knew of Roscoe, tho
practical certainty that he had murdered
her father, his indublta&to murder of
Perry Hunter and the diabolical plot he
had all but succeeded in carrying out
against the Aurora's people In splto of
all that, the idea of deliberately seeking
him out and killing him in cold blood,
before he had made an ovort- move
against them, was highly repugnant to
hor.
Cayley had no such feeling. To him
Roscoe was simply a more dangerous
sort of wild beast. To him, at first
glance, the Idea of merely waiting for
their enemy to attack them at his leisure
was well nigh intolerable, and seemed
hopeless into tho bargain. But when ho
saw that it was the only thing they could
do. when he began really to study out the
strategic possibilities of the position they
held, the outlook brightened considerably.
In tho first place, this bit of beach
where the hut-stood was practically forti
fied. The cliff behind it was absolutely
sheer, and was capped with deep, per
petual snow. Half a mile to tho west
ward was the promontory, and about half
a mile up the beach from the hut, to the
eastward, the glacier projected its Ice
masses in a long floe out to seaward.
This glacier "provided tho only practicable
means of entrance to the interior valley
and the ledge where tho gold was.
By means of a largo scale map, Cayley
pointed out to Jeanne this advantage of
their position. "So long as we stick to
this bit of beach." he said, "we can't be
rushed nor surprised. No ono can attack
us without either coming down the gla
cier at ono end, or around tho promon
tory at the other. From either direction
they've got to approach without cover.
Of course if there are a lot of them, we
sha'n' t have any chance. But it may
be there's only one, and it's likely that
there arc not more than three."
"But at night," said tho girl, " at
night thcro'U be nothing to prevent their
coming as close as they please.. They
may be out there now, not a dozen yards
away."
"They're not doing much if they are.
We're securely barricaded here, and they
can t attempt to break in without giving
us fair warning. Unless there arc too
many of them we should beat thorn at
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that game. No; tho tlmo to look out for
them is when we're outside tho hut, out
on the beach doing the things we'll have
to do bringing in lirowood, looking for
nioro game, and so on."
"Shall we have to do that? Can't wo
Just stay in here, safe?
"Tho daylight will answer that (nies
tion for me," he said. "Wo must make
the most of it. A month from now
there'll lie but little. Wo mustn't make
prisoners of ourselves until tho wlntor
does It for us. There is one thing,
though." ho added thoughtfully after a
little silence, "ono thing that I must do
at once, and that is to destroy thoso
sheds whore thoy kept their stores. Thoy
would furnish a cover as good a cover
as any enemy could ask for. They hin
der our view up tho beach.
"How long do you suppose it will last?"
she asked,, in a voice that Bhook a little.
"How long can it last? How long can wo
live Uko that, even supposing that our
watch is offectlvc and that they aren't
able to surprise us?" Sho clasped her
hands, with a tmudder. and gripped them
between her kneos. "Oh. if it would only
happen soon," she went on, "whatcvor
it 1st"
"What I don't understand," said Cay
ley, "i3 why they haven't attacked us
already. Why have they waited until wo
are fortified and secure? Why didn't
they attack us yesterday morning when
they would have found us helpless?"
"Or yesterday afternoon." she supple
mented, "down tho beach around tho
promontory! then, when we know ho must
havo been so near. That's rather hor
rible all by Itself, just the fact that he
didn't."
What the girl said was perfectly true.
Cayley felt it himself ns sharply as she
did. Aside from that one element In it,
their situation, though terrible, was real,
was the sort of situation that a suffi
ciently determined courage and a suf
ficiently alert wariness could cope with.
But their Immunity from attack during
all those hours when the enemy must
have been close at hand, and when op
portunities for attack had beon so plenti
ful, had something uncanny about it. and
gave to this terriblo adventure of theirs
something of tho quality of horror.
"Of course," said Cayley, "there must
he a. perfectly valid explanation of It,
and it may bo one that we can discover
for ourselves. If wc set nbout It."
So, as sanely and as logically as pos
sible, dismissing as far as they could the
nameless dreadful .terror that surrounded
tho situation, they began to reconstruct
the story of tho member, or members of
the Walrus's party who had not been
aboard the Aurora when the gale drove
her out to sea..
"Wc both slept late that morning."
said Cayley. "The yacht was gone when
we came out of the hut and first looked
seaward. I expected at that time to find
part of the Walrus party camped near
by. I opened the hut door cautiously
on that account, and my reason for as
suming that none of them was left here,
was the Idea that they'd have been here
on the beach near the hut, If they'd been
anywhere. Well, we know now that that
assumption was wrong. There was somo
ono here any way. It's probable that
with the very Urst return of tho light ho
discovered the fact that the Aurora had
been blown out to sea, hours beforo wo
did.
"Yet no one came near the hut all day,
and I tulec that to mean that they, or he,
avoided It. It would have oecn an obvi
ous place to come. It's hard to sec why
they avoided It. unless because they know
that we were here. If thoy knew, they
certainly had plenty of opportunities to
attack us. because we were often sepa
rated that day. I was In the hut and
you were out on tho beach gathering fire
wood." "Surely," said Joanne, "he couldn't
have hoped for a bettor opportunity to
attack mo than he had when I was alone
there In the twilight, before you came
flying down out of the sky: and you said
lie was quite near. Why do you suppose
he didn't? Why do you suppose he
waited?"
"And even after T came down," said
Cayley, "I was helplcsa for a minute
while I was getting clear of my planes.
Yes, that was his chance, and yot he
waited. After we had gone, he apparent
ly scaled the cliff: for his tracks led right
up to It, and then disappeared. It's not
quite so precipitously steep there as it
is here, but I would hardly have dreamed
that a human being could climb It."
"He's afraid." said Jeanno after a little
thoughtful silence, "simply afraid. But
If he's tho man we think ho Is, It
wouldn't be a human fear. . It must ho
superstitious in some way. It wouldn't
bo wonderful If he felt that, after the
two glimpses he had of you. I remem
ber how I felt at first when you alighted
on the floe beside me. He's seen you
twice, remember. Tho first time at night
in the fog: the second time in broad day.
with the sun on your wings. No, it isn't
strange if lie thinks of you. not as a man
at nil. but as a sort of terrible angel
keeping guard over me. When I go very
long without soolng you. or when I see
you In lllght, I get to thinking of you Jn
that way myself."
"If that's the way ho thinks of me,"
said Cayley. "wo'll try not to dlsabuso
him A belief like that Ie an Item on out
side of the ledger, certainly. And wo
haven't any such balance in our favor
that wc can afford to throw an advan
tage away, even a small ono."
Really tho balance of advantage be
tween them and their enemy was amaz
ingly even. They had the hut, the onemy
the stores. They had Captain Fielding's
journal, their enemy the experience and
practical knowledge of the country. Thoy
were two, with but a .single weapon be
tween them. Thnlr enemy, for aught
I hoy know, might bo ono or a half a
dozen; and how armed, they did not
know.
I'-ortunalely. no prophetic vision en
abled them to anticipate, on that first
evening, the length of time that that pre
carious life and death balance would
maintain Itself. They had agreed, Philip
nnd Jeanno, that the only thing to do
was to wait and to maintain an unwink
ing vigilance. But both of them thought
of the duration of this wait In terms of
hours, or, at most. days. Had they fore
seen that It would stretch Itself out Into
weeks and months, they might well have
despaired.
There were two things thai, kept them
i from succumbing to despair. The first
I was that they never reallv permitted
I themselves to hopo, to Indulge In any
I thoughts of a summer's day when their
horizon should be cut by the spars and
funnels of a ship brlnclng relief. Thoy
were simply going to live one day at a
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i snatch out of tho hand of death, they
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would give thanks. It was the only at
tltudo possible for people In their condi
tion. And the thing that helped them to
maintain It was tho abundance of neces
sary routine occupation. They divided
their day Into watches. Cayley slept
from four o'clock In the afternoon until
midnight and then kept watch alone, as
the girl had done, until eight. During
that period thoy remained lnsldo the hut.
The day. from eight until four, they
spent out of doors, when tho condition
of tho weather made this possible, either
at work or merely tramping up and down
for exercise.
At first thero was a good deal of work
to do. Tearing down the sheds which
clustered about the hut, and reducing
their framos and planking to fire-wood
was an arduous task, but ho wqrked at It
until It was done, Jeanno standing sen
tinel all the time.
When It was dono, they were prac
tically secure against surprise, for from
their windows, with the aid of a field
glass which Cayley had found In tho ob
servatory, they were ablo to sweep tho
whole beach absolutely clean, In both di
rections. And almost every day while the light
lasted, with Jeanne, armed with the re
volver, keeping watch before tho hut,
Cayley took to his wings and patrollod
the beach, from tho glacier to tho prom
ontory, high up above tho level .of tho
crest of tho cliff. His flight was always
along tho same track. Ho never winged
his way Inland nor out to sea.
There were two reasons for this. He
dared not go so far away from Jeanne
that a flash and a swoop would not bring
him. to her side. The other reason was,
that If a superstitious fear of this great
man -bird wcro really what deterred their
enemy from attacking them, It was well
to let him believe that immunity from
this portent could be secured by keep
ing away from this particular stretch of
beach.
As the shortening days sped by and be
gan to get themselves reckoned Into
weeks, the conviction grew upon Philip
and Jeanne that their securest protection
lay In his wings, In the tcrrorrlzlng ef
fect upon their Invisible, silent enemy of
tho majestic winged apparition which
was so often seen soaring In mid-sky
abovo the hut and tho little stretch of
beach surrounding it. Something was
protecting them evidently. Almost every
week brought some evidence, not only of
the existence but of tho nearness of their
enemy. They never actually caught sight
or sound of him, but some times when
the wind blew from the right quarter
they could inako oul. with tnelr field
glass, a wrack of brownish smoke, such
as would be given off by burning whale
oil. drifting down from somewhere along
tho glacier, and made visible by the
dazzling whiteness of that background.
And some tlmc3 they saw tracks In the
newly fallen snow, never coming very
near the hut, but trespassing a little way,
either down from the glacier or up from
the headland, upon the stretch of bench
they were defending. They ncvor found
the tracks of more than a single, man,
and these wore always the same. So
that they camo to believe, although they
could not know, that they had only one
man to deal with.
Thoy sometimes speculated on tho
question whether he was Roscoe or some
other member of the Walru3 crew; really,
In fact, they found It Impossible to hope
that It was any other than he.
They got proof of his Identity, or what
amounted to it, along toward the end of
October. Cayloy's keen eyes caught, one
day, from up aloft where ne was soar
ing, the glint of something on the beach
near tho foot of tho headland. Ho circled
down In a long swoop, caught It up with
out alighting and mounted Into the air,
a trick of aeronautics which made Jeanne,
accustomed as she was by now lo seolng
him In lllght. catch her breath a little.
When he descended and alighted bcsldo
her a few moments lator, he showed her
a sheath knife, the haft of which was a
rudelv carved walrus tusk. Tho hand of
tho last user of It had had blood upon It,
and its imprint upon the surface of tho
ivory was plainly lo be seen. The lines
In the palm wore traceable and, length
wise, along tho sldo of the handle, the
print of an Immense thumb.
"You see." said Cayley quietly, "he was
using this knlfo left-handed."
Tho girl paled a little as she handed
the weapon hack lo him, hut sho spoke
quietly enough:
"It's good to know," she said, "almost
a relief."
(To be continued.)
NOTICE.
Notice Is hereby given by tho city coun
cil of Salt Lake City of tho Intention of
such council to mako tho following do
scribed Improvement, to-wlt:
Constructing cement sidewalk five (5)
feet wide and four (-1) Inches thick on
tho east sldo of Washington street be
tween Ninth South street and Fayctto
avenue, in Sidewalk District No. 41, and
dofray the abutters' portion of thp cost
and expense thereof, estimated at four
hundred sixty-six nnd 65-100 ($-166.65) dol
lars, or 70-100 ($0.70) dollar per front or
linear foot of abutting properly there be
ing 690.7 feet abutting said Improvement,
by a local asosssmcnt upon tho lots or
pieces of ground within the following de
scribed district, being the d'ttrlct to be
affected and benefited by said Improve
ment, namely:
Tho west sldo of lots 2 to 21, Inclusive
block 1, Hunter's subdivision, block 23;
commencing at tho northwest corner of
lot 24, block 1. Hunter's subdivision, block
2.1, thenco north 10 foot, all In Flvo Aero
Plat "A," Big Field survey.
Tho total cost of said Improvement is
estimated at four hundred ninety-one and
39-100 (5401.39) dollars, of which sum the
city's portion Is twenty-four and 74-100
(?24.74) dollars, leaving four hundred
sixty-six and 65-100 (5466.65) dollars to bo
raised by local assessment.
All protests and objections to tho carry
ing out of such Intention must bo pre
sented In writing, stating thoroln lot and
block, or description of property, to tho
city recorder on or beforo tho 12th day
of September, 1010, being tho tlmo set by
said council when 1 1 will hear and con
sider such protests and objections as may
bo made thereto.
By order of tho city council of Salt
Lake City. Utah.
Dated June 27, 1010.
B. S. RIVES.
City Recorder.
Sidewalk Extonsion No. 162. o2C53
DELINQUENT NOTICE.
Smuggler Mining company. Location
of principal place of business. Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Notice There arc delinquent upon tho
following described stock on account of
assessment No. 3, levied on 'he Sth day
of July, 1910, the several amounts set
opposlio iho names of tlio respective
shareholders as follows:
Cert. No.
No. Name. Shares. Ami.
14 John Jlmpson 1.000 52.50
16 D. A Bunker , 1,000 2.50
74 Luther Wakoharn 500 1.25
75 George Klppon 500 1 25
10.1 John Wellard 100 .25
114 I5d. L. Cushlng 500 1.25
127 Harry McDonald 500 1.25
136 Ira Chlprnan 8.000 20.00
157 Louis B. Gay 1,000 2 50
105 Ira Chlprnan 5,000 12.50
168 Mrs. E. Saslnfikl 1.000 2.50
191 James Ivors 1.500 3.75
103 W. S. Jonos 1,000 2.50
106 Lyman F. Hulcn 5,000 12.50
200 Joseph Myors 2,000 5.00
201 Charles Martin 1.000 2.50
202 W. B. Jones 6.300 13.25
205 Lyman F. Tlulon 1,000 2.50
200 Lyman F. Union 1,000 2.50
207 Lyman F. Hulon 1,000 2.50
20S Lvman F. Hulon 1.000 2.50
209 Lyman F. Hulon 1.000 2.50
210 Lyman F. Hulcn 1,000 2.50
212 Bon Lowis 1,000 2.50
I And In nccordnnco with law and an
order of tho board of directors, madu on
the 8th day of July, 1910, so many pharos
of ouch parcel of such stock as may be
necessary will bo sold at tho oftlco of
the company. 303 Judgo building. Salt
Lake City, Utah, on tho 19th day of
September, 1010, at 7:30 o'clock p. m. of
said day, to pay delinquent ussussmont
thereon, together with tho cost of ad
yerUr'Mi; n(l expense of sale,
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